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Rating: 3/5?It's fine but kinda disappointing. There's a lot of wasted potential here.'Specially, imo, with regards to the FL. I was expecting a cooler FL, but she's a typical airheaded ingenue. 😔 The romance is similarly predictable with an overbearing/controlling but all-powerful & beautiful ML.All usual descriptors apply for the FL — eg. cute, innocent, naïve, idealistic, generally harmless, angry only for comedy, damsel in need of protection, clueless, dense, etc. You know the drill.Basically — she's not the sharpest tool in the box, but her lack of knowledge & defenselessness serve as pros to add to her charm (for the cold, OP ML anyway).Speaking of, the power dynamics b/t the FL & the ML are also very stereotypical for hetromance.He's her Spoiler
hostage/prisoner
[collapse] he does to her to get her to Behave.Ever so tragically, female loss of autonomy continues to be played off as cute or romantic or funny.TL;DR I don't think I'd rec this to any of my friends, bc most have similar opinions about these kinds of FLs & these kinds of hetromance dynamics (we're tired of them). But I can see why someone would indulge in this as a fluff read.